Mortal Bones

Wuchen Island is the fifth-ranked sect in the Nine Prefectures, and it is difficult for ordinary people to refuse his invitation.

"Sorry, I'm not interested."

Xu Taiping shook his head and walked away.

As for the matter of forming gangs and factions, it actually started before entering the Immortal Gourd Cave Heaven. The young monks favored by the major sects of the Nine Prefectures, with the support of their own sects, each recruited the monks who entered the Immortal Gourd Cave Heaven this time, in order to strengthen themselves while reducing the resistance on the road ahead.

If there were no other things to do, Xu Taiping would not mind joining one of them, after all, it would save time and effort.

Murong Song, who was rejected by Xu Taiping, looked a little ugly.

"Boy, you don't want to drink a toast, right?"

"Forget it, everyone has their own ambitions."

Murong Song stretched out his hand and stopped several impulsive teenagers behind him.

"But when the time comes, if you get into trouble when you walk out of here, no one will save you."

He continued with a threatening tone.

This was said to Xu Taiping, and even more to the people who were still watching.

"Boom boom!"

At this moment, a muffled thunder suddenly sounded in the sky above.

Then the sky and the earth suddenly darkened, and the whole world was dark.

In the dilapidated hall behind the crowd, the oil lamp that had long dried up suddenly lit up, illuminating the dilapidated statue in the hall with an extremely gloomy and terrifying light.

Instantly, there was an uproar in front of Fengqi Hall.

Some people even opened the teleportation scroll directly to escape from the Immortal Gourd Cave Heaven, but in the end, there was no response after opening three scrolls in a row.

For a while, people were panicked.

"Don't panic, everyone follow me to the hall. When we came here, the elders of our Wuchen Island said that no matter what happened in the Immortal Gourd Cave Heaven, the five outermost halls are the safest!"

In the panic, the voice of Murong Song, the young island master of Wuchen Island, suddenly sounded, suppressing the panic of the young monks.

After hearing this, the originally panicked people all gathered towards the dilapidated hall.

Except Xu Taiping.

Not only did he not approach the Fengqi Palace, but he took a few steps back with a hint of fear in his eyes.

"Is this what Sister Lingyue said? In the fragments of the Immortal Demon Battlefield Continent, there will be a demonic tide every once in a while, the blood moon tide."

Xu Taiping thought so while looking up at the sky.

Then he really found a blood-red full moon hanging in the dark sky above his head.

The so-called demonic tide refers to the phenomenon that the demonic energy accumulated in the fragments of the secret realm will be released every once in a while.

The time can be hundreds of years, thousands of years, or tens of thousands of years.

The harm caused by the demonic tide is first to erode the minds of monsters and even cultivators, making them crazy, and secondly to awaken some ferocious beasts sleeping underground.

For example, some existences that Fairy Lingyue asked her to pay attention to.

The reason why Xu Taiping stayed away from the ruined palace was because a wild beast raised by the demon clan was suppressed under the Fengqi Palace.

Not only Fengqi Hall, but also the underground of the other four halls suppress wild beasts.

And the existence of wild beasts cannot be completely eliminated, they can only be suppressed underground.

However, most of the time, the owner of the secret realm can sense the date when the demonic energy tide is about to erupt, so generally at that time, the owner or guardian of the secret realm will close the secret realm for hundreds of years, and reopen it when the demonic energy subsides.

So the harm caused is not great.

"As the guardian of this secret realm, didn't Yuqing feel the arrival of the blood moon tide?"

Xu Taiping put his hand on the hilt of the knife and silently retreated to the back of a collapsed stone pillar in the open space in front of the hall. At the same time, he began to doubt Yuqing.

"Why don't you let us in?"

"What right do you have to not let us in?"

"You are just taking revenge, taking revenge on my brother and sister for not joining you just now!"

At this time, a loud noise suddenly sounded at the door of the hall.

Through the dim lights in the hall, Xu Taiping only saw a pair of siblings being stopped outside the hall by Murong Song and others.

A closer look revealed that the pair of siblings were the two who had misunderstood Xu Taiping before.

The one who was arguing with Murong Song and others at this moment was the brother who had scolded Xu Taiping before.

"Bang!"

Amid the quarrel, a huge palm shadow suddenly slapped out from the door of the hall, directly knocking the burly boy back up.

"Swish!"

The girl on the side suddenly pulled out the long knife from her waist, and when another palm print slapped towards her brother, she chopped the palm shadow with a "swish" sound.

What surprised Xu Taiping was that this seemingly weak girl had an extremely resolute sword intent, and she chopped the palm shadow into pieces with one knife.

Her brother also turned over and climbed up at this time, also pulling out a long knife from his waist, and chopped towards the door of the hall without saying a word.

The brother and sister both drew their swords, and for a moment, their momentum was not inferior to that of Murong Song and others in the hall.

However, just when the sword power of the two was about to overwhelm Murong Song's palm power, Murong Song suddenly freed one hand and gently patted the short sword at his waist.

With a "clang" sound, the short sword at his waist turned into a stream of light in the sound of the sword and flew towards the brother and sister.

"Bang!"

With just one sword, the brother and sister's sword power collapsed, and their body-protecting true energy was shattered.

At this critical moment, the elder brother suddenly pushed the girl beside him away without hesitation, and then, with red eyes, slashed at the flying sword with a knife.

"Crack!"

The long knife in his hand almost broke upon hearing the sound.

"Boom!"

But at this moment, the girl who was pushed away by her elder brother suddenly lit up with rune lights all over her body, and then she shouted loudly and slashed at the flying sword with her knife.

With a loud "bang", Murong Song's flying sword was chopped away by the girl's knife.

However, compared with the power of the girl's knife, Xu Taiping was more concerned about the girl's knife-drawing posture - one foot on the ground, both hands holding the knife, the knife and the body in a straight line.

This knife-drawing posture is exactly the same as the cicada-singing style of Duan Tianya's demon-slaying knife.

However, apart from the posture, this knife has no other similarities with the cicada-singing style. This knife is more like a cicada-singing style without the cicada-singing style.

"Could this girl be from the Tiandao Sect?"

Xu Taiping secretly guessed in his heart.